The House select committee on China has asked the Justice Department and F.B.I.
to investigate reports that Chinese authorities covered up positive doping tests for nearly half the swim team it sent to the last Olympic Games and that the global antidoping regulator failed to take action.
“This scandal raises serious legal, ethical and competitive concerns and may constitute a broader state-sponsored strategy by the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.)
to unfairly compete at the Olympic Games in ways Russia has previously done,” the panel’s chairman, Representative John Moolenaar, Republican of Michigan, and its senior Democrat, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, said in a letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and the F.B.I.
The letter could put additional political pressure on the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation to ratchet up scrutiny of China’s athletic program and the organization responsible for policing the use of banned performance enhancers, the World Anti-Doping Agency, just two months before the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
Persons:
John Moolenaar, Raja Krishnamoorthi, General Merrick B, Garland, Christopher A, Wray
Organizations:
Justice Department, Olympic Games, Olympic, Republican, Federal Bureau of, Doping Agency
Locations:
China, Russia, People’s Republic of China, Michigan, Illinois, Paris